Today:
The Moon is Full each month as it reaches a position exactly opposite the Sun, so tonight’s Full “Corn” Moon rises as the Sun sets, and then sets as the Sun rises tomorrow morning. This connects with the Moon’s companion tonight, rising to the left and a bit later than the Moon, the planet Saturn. Saturn is nearing its opposite position to the Sun for the year, not surpirisingly called “opposition”, on the 21st.
Monday:
As the sun sets this evening at around 7:45 PM, the Waxing Gibbous Moon, still nearly full, will rise in the east. By 8:30, the Moon will be low in the east-southeast, and the gathering darkness will allow the pale yellow Saturn to again appear near the Moon, now to the Moon’s right, as the Moon’s orbit shifts it to the left or east each and every night.
Tuesday:
As the Big Dipper rides low in the northwest, consider the tale from the Native American people, the Haudenosaunee (known previously as the Iroquois). This bear (the “bowl” of the Dipper) is being hunted by three hunters (the three stars of the handle). When they see him and shoot, his blood falls from the sky, turning the leaves red during the fall.